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From: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com>
To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>,
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Subject: Re: PPP
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Hi

Thanks for your reply.  My Telco bills me for a min of a 5 min call.
Therefore I might as well get FreeBSD to kick me off if there is no activity
after this limit has been reached, as I am paying for the call anyway.  Then
after the five min is up it switches to a different timeout value.

I read you could do it some where and I can't remember where.

Gordon McKee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To: "Christoph Sold" <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
Cc: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com>; "freebsd-questions"
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: PPP


> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:08:57PM +0100, Christoph Sold wrote:
> >
> >
> > G D McKee schrieb:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have read it somewhere that there is a way if telling ppp (user mode
ppp)
> > > to stay live for a given period of time and the timeout after this.  I
can't
> > > remember where I read it and would like to set it up.
> > >
> > > For example, the min call charge is 5min, so I might as well be
connected
> > > for this period of time as you get billed for it anyway, and then drop
it
> > > there is, lets say 60sec of inactivity.
> >
> > on the ppp command line, or in the configuration file:
> >
> > set timeout 0   deactivates the stay alive period,
> > set timeout <n> sets the stay alive period to <n> seconds.
> >
> > The line is dropped after there is NO traffic for <n> seconds. This may
> > not be what you looked for, depending on your setup.
>
> No i think he is looking for a way of limiting the length of
> connect time, whatever. Not a simple timeout.
> I dont think PPP has this facility inbuilt. The easiest way
> is probably to write a script to set off in ppp.linkup that sleeps
> for the desired time and then hangs PPP up...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> sleep 300
> killall -HUP ppp
>
>
> Or something like that..
>
> Cliff
>
>
>
>



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